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From: peterr@utcsrgv.UUCP (Peter Rowley)
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Subject: The BASIC/personal computer fad
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Date: Mon, 10-Oct-83 20:38:20 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 10 20:38:20 1983
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If I had the money, I think I'd go away and live in the Arctic for a year or
two.  With any luck, by the time I'd get back, Reagan would be gone and the
"computers-are-here-so-let's-all-learn-BASIC-to-get-ahead" fad would be over.
Not that learning things is bad, or even learning BASIC, it's just that it is
such a *FAD* right now.  And I think it's raising a lot of false hopes;
programming large systems is still difficult using the best of languages (let
alone BASIC!) but no-one's saying that!
  p. rowley, U. Toronto.